A preacher on his deathbed summoned his doctor and his lawyer. They came, and he asked them to sit on either side of his bed and hold his hands.
They sat thus for a long while until the doctor stirred and said, ”You don’t have long on this earth, Reverend. Better tell us why you asked us to come.”
The old preacher stirred himself wheezed and said ”Well, Jesus died between two thieves, and that’s the way I want to go too.”
Milk cartonsIn 1929, Sheffield Farms of New York began using Sealcone wax paper cartons instead of glass bottles for milk delivery, using packaging equipment from Sealcone Inc. of New York. These quart, pint and half pint truncated cone containers used a flexible spruce fibre paper rather than a stiff cardboard. The upper end was flattened and hermetically sealed with a metal closure that permitted storage even upside-down. This triangular shape meant two Sealcones used only as much space as one glass milk bottle, with a 94% saving in packaging weight, and at lower cost. Advertisements said they were transparent enough to see the cream line. Borden's plant in New York adopted Sealcones in Feb 1930. Various other designs of single-use wax paper cartons had been devised and used elsewhere before the Sealcone.[Image: from a 1936 advertisement.] |
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